Lily Allen she is in her fashionable girl era.
Allen, 40, attended the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on Monday, November 3, after releasing her new album. West End Girlwhich apparently refers to her recent separation from her estranged husband David Harbour.
The British singer arrived at the event wearing a leather ensemble Colleen Allenwho was nominated as emerging designer of the year. Lily’s all-white, lingerie-inspired dress, a long skirt and breast-baring bra made a huge statement. She removed a floor-scraping blouse for photos, revealing the sheer lace fabric at the back of the skirt that showed off her legs.
Lily kept her accessories minimal, with neutral makeup and heels and multiple gold hoop earrings. Her dark hair was styled in a sleek updo that pushed her signature bangs front and center.
talking with the cut On the white carpet on Monday, Lily called her look “sick” and “fun, classic — that’s it.”
Lily has received a significant amount of positive public feedback since the launch of West End Girl in October She recorded the album in just 10 days in December 2024, the same month she split from Harbour, 50, after four years of marriage.
“It’s not a cruel albumLily said interview magazine last month. “I don’t feel like I was bad. It was just the feelings I was processing at the time.”
She noted, “I feel very differently about the whole situation now. We all go through breakups, and it’s always very brutal. But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it.”
Lily Allen and David Harbor are selling their New York home following the release of their breakout album, West End Girl. The couple listed their 19th-century Brooklyn home with Carl Gambino of Compass for $7,995,000. The four-level home has five bedrooms and four bathrooms. Allen, 40, and Harbour, who separated in 2024, bought the (…)
Lily played down talk she made a “revenge album”, especially given the lyrics in which she appears to be targeting an unfaithful partner, but insisted: “I don’t need revenge.”
He explained that “I was trying to process things, and that’s great in terms of the album, but now I don’t feel confused or angry.”
West End Girl is Lily’s first album since 2018 no shame. Within that seven-year window, London-born Lily moved to New York City with the strange things actor They bought a brownstone in Brooklyn (appeared in a viral Architecture summary turns), which the exes are now selling for nearly $8 million.
On her new record, Lily sings about seeing a text from “Madeline” on her partner’s phone, prompting a confrontation.
“How long has it been going on? Is it just sex or is there excitement?” she asks in a song it bears the name of the other woman.
Harbour, meanwhile, seems to be making progress as well. In an interview with Esquire UK published on November 1, he said he hoped his next 50 years “will be filled with more complex and rich stories”.
He added: “Then of course there are personal things I want to do, and people I want to love and be good and nurture, things like that.”